About Us
Venues Direct is a limited liability company incorporated in Great Britain.
UK Companies House Registration Number: 06392166
UK Vat Number: 927 6407 06
Postal Address: Please use our email for all correspondence
Registered Office: Venues Direct Limited, 37 Warren Street, London W1T 6AD
Why?
There are literally thousands of websites in Britain and Ireland in competition to provide services in the tourism, events and leisure services industries, which come in all sizes, many of which are commissioned based booking agencies or simply front pages that out link to pay per click commission based agencies. The vast majority are niche sites dealing only in a particular geographical area or a particular area of services. Our research team has examined hundreds of these websites over a six month period and found that the mean average of services actually advertised is between 100 and 600 (on the larger websites) - this is out of an estimated potential of 100,000 plus service providers in Britain and Ireland that we have researched.
Venues Direct is here to bring all these varied service providers into one directory, with no cross advertising, no premium placings in results for higher advertising fees, no out linking to pay per click commission agencies, just genuine results based on genuine detailed searches. A better service for searchers seeking suppliers and a better service for suppliers to be seen and hired.
Concept
Create a single cross platform online advertising directory for the tens of thousands of suppliers in the tourism, events and leisure industries operating in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales in a one stop, fully comprehensive website directory that allows searchers to find exactly what they are looking for (without having to go to many different niche sites with limited listings) and be put in direct contact with suppliers rather than via commission / booking fees based agents.
Method
Create a directory that gives full advertising exposure and direct links to the suppliers own website with all the bells and whistles included at one low annual fee – images, slideshows, database search information and user uploaded text, with no premium listings and no additional fees for upgrades or changes to the advertisers details throughout the 12 month license term, designed to bring the searcher to the supplier direct using a bespoke keyword search within results database engine to refine searches as well as search by country, area and counties and of course direct links to the suppliers own website.
Marketing
Initially Venues Direct is marketing to over 80,000 service providers in Britain, Ireland and the Channel Islands – for a comprehensive listing of the range of service providers we are marketing to click here.
Our strategy for ongoing marketing to the general public and events planners, both public and corporate, is straight forward. As well as the obvious search engine promotions we recognize that the hoped for “stumble upon” approach relied on by many websites is limited and with the major search engines constantly changing their search algorithms to prevent optimization by websites without genuine content, a terrestrial marketing presence is required to brand the service and make searchers aware that Venuesdirect.com actually has the content and integrity to deliver the answers to their searches without hype, Google ads or premium paid results - just genuine results to genuine searches.
The Venues Direct Team.
